14+ hour, 23+ min ago   (778+ words) Humboldt Redwoods State Park covers a sizable 53,000 acres in Northern California, making it the state's third-largest state park. Its size, ancient forests, extensive trail network, and towering trees give it the same sense of wilderness associated with a number of…...

19+ hour, 23+ min ago   (787+ words) WorldAtlas Geysers need an unusually precise combination of ingredients. Underground heat and water are not enough; a constricted plumbing system must trap hot water long enough for pressure to build and trigger an eruption. That geological requirement makes true geysers…...

22+ hour, 38+ min ago   (551+ words) Ferries serve two island marinas, Rock Harbor in the east and Windigo in the west, from three mainland ports. Here are the basic routes: Each boat keeps its own calendar, and none of them runs daily all season. The NPS-operated…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (333+ words) A 2014 netting survey found native salmonids recovering. Water-quality readings were similar before and after treatment, and surveys found comparable invertebrate diversity. Alaska Fish and Game now records the invasive northern pike population as successfully removed. The Indiana Department of Natural…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (874+ words) WorldAtlas The ice sheets that covered the northern United States dragged rock hundreds of miles before melting out from under it, and the boulders they abandoned rarely match the ground they sit on today. Geologists call these rocks glacial erratics....

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (781+ words) WorldAtlas Pull up a map of America's national forests and a pattern smacks you in the face. They pile up in the mountains, the Rockies, the Cascades, the Appalachians, and then there is one giant, conspicuous void running right through…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1102+ words) WorldAtlas Broadway Street in Philipsburg still glows with the multi-hued Victorian storefronts its 1880s silver boom paid for. A few hundred miles away, the Anaconda Smelter Stack rises 585 feet over Park Avenue, one of the tallest free-standing brick structures anywhere. Fort…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1371+ words) WorldAtlas The Pollard Hotel in Red Lodge opened in 1893 as the Spofford, and both Buffalo Bill Cody and Calamity Jane appear on its guest register. Livingston's Northern Pacific depot went up in 1902 to a design by Reed and Stem, the…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (558+ words) On the other hand, the Nicolet side is known as the "Cradle of Rivers" and is a huge draw for paddlers, with the headwaters of the Wolf, Pine, Popple, Oconto, Peshtigo, Deerskin, and Wisconsin Rivers originating there. Coronado National Forest…...

5+ day, 8+ min ago   (1199+ words) The chronology below follows the Trust for Public Land's ranking of the oldest city parks in the country, and every entry is one you can still walk into. Fifty acres today, bounded by Tremont, Park, Beacon, Charles and Boylston in…...